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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Hippocrene Books
Publication date
December 1, 1989
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780880294287
ISBN-10
0880294280
Availability§
Publisher Out of Business
Original list price
$7.95
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: "The history of the Barbary Coast properly begins with the gold rush to California in 1849. If the precious yellow metal hadnât been discovered ... the development of San Franciscoâs underworld in all likelihood would have been indistinguishable from that of any other large American city. Instead, owing almost entirely to the influx of gold-seekers and the horde of gamblers, thieves, harlots, politicians, and other felonious parasites who battened upon them, there arose a unique criminal district that for almost seventy years was the scene of more viciousness and depravity, but which at the same time possessed more glamour, than any other area of vice and iniquity on the American continent." The Barbary Coast is Herbert Asburyâs classic chronicle of the birth of San Franciscoâa violent explosion from which the infant city emerged full-grown and raging wild. From all over the world practitioners of every vice stampeded for the blood and money of the gold fields. Gambling dens ran all day including Sundays. From noon to noon houses of prostitution offered girls of every age and race. (In the 1850s, San Francisco was home to only one woman for every thirty men. It was not until 1910 that the sexes achieved anything close to parity in their populations.) This is the story of the banditry, opium bouts, tong wars, and corruption, from the eureka at Sutterâs Mill until the last bagnio closed its doors seventy years later.
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Hardcover
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Reprint edition from Hippocrene Books (December 1, 1989)
9780880294287 | details & prices | List price $7.95
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Paperback
from Basic Books (October 8, 2002)
9781560254089 | details & prices | 336 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 1.25 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $17.99
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